Day: February 6, 2018

Bug in Grammarly browser extension exposes virtually everything a user ever writes

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The Grammarly browser extension, which has about 22 million users, exposes its authentication tokens to all websites, allowing any to access all the user’s data without permission, according to a bug report from Google Project Zero’s Tavis Ormandy. The high-severity bug was discovered on Friday and fixed early Monday morning, “a really impressive response time,” Read more about Bug in Grammarly browser extension exposes virtually everything a user ever writes[…]

Japan successfully launches world’s smallest satellite-carrying rocket

Posted on by Robin Edgar

KAGOSHIMA – Japan successfully launched on Saturday the world’s smallest satellite-carrying rocket following a failed attempt in January last year, the nation’s space agency said. The rocket about the size of a utility pole, measuring 10 meters in length and 50 centimeters in diameter, lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture and Read more about Japan successfully launches world’s smallest satellite-carrying rocket[…]

Exoplanets from another galaxy spotted

Posted on by Robin Edgar

The Kepler Space Telescope has found oodles of exoplants, but now astroboffins have spotted the first exoplanets outside our galaxy. A group of astroboffins from the University of Oklahoma has become the first to demonstrate exoplanet observations in another galaxy – one that’s 3.8 billion light years away, or one-third of the distance across the Read more about Exoplanets from another galaxy spotted[…]